Fans of vintage fashion, music, film, art and design will be flocking to Goodwood in West Sussex this weekend for the first annual Vintage At Goodwood Festival. The three-day event is selling itself as a celebration of all that is great about British culture, or a “new Festival Of Britain”. We love it for its Slow credentials; a passion for time-honoured style, a celebration of a national culture and a jolly good community knees-up.
Vintage At Goodwood is the brainchild of designers Gerardine and Wayne Hemingway who started their business selling and customising secondhand clothes and are now co-owners of Britain’s premier collection of cultural artefacts, The Land of Lost Content Museum, and Lord March – mastermind behind the internationally acclaimed Goodwood Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival, and proprietor of one of the largest organic farms in the south of England.
For vintage fashion lovers, Vintage At Goodwood will bring together some of the best vintage fashion boutiques in the UK, from top-end collectors to rummage rails. Whether you’re a Forties pin-up, a Betty Draper doppelganger or an Eighties retro kid, your passion will be indulged.
There’s a fantastic music line-up over the three days too. Playing at the event will be The Faces, Sandy Shaw, The Noisettes, Earth Wind & Fire, Martha Reeves, Peter Hook playing Joy Division songs, and many more.
If film is your thing, you can take time to sit on the grass and watch cult Hitchcock movies from the Sixties, Kubrick’s 2001 Space Odyssey and moon landing footage.
Each decade has had its own expert curator, so you can be certain to get a genuine sense of the era. They include lounge music maestro Mike Flowers who’s put together a musical celebration of the Sixties.
You’ll also have a chance to help detemine the vintage classics of the future. Join the vintage futurologists as they choose pieces to bury in a time capsule that will be unearthed in 2035.
You can visit for just the day or get a camping pass for the whole event. Stay in the Goodwood hotel or go ‘glamping’. Just make sure your tent is as fabulously retro as your wardrobe. A musty family tent from the Seventies might just about pass muster, while a Forties army tent or a fully decked-out Fifties caravenette will win you admiring looks a plenty.
Vintage At Goodwood is being held on August 14-16. For more information including location and how to get tickets visit www.vintageatgoodwood.com
